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No Windows – “Easter Island”

No Windows introduced their latest EP The Great Traitor with the alluring “ Return .” Now the Glasgow band has another mesmerizing track in store. “Easter Island” finds Morgan Morris and Verity Slangen in folk duo mode, harmonizing over little more than some fingerpicked

Album Of The Week: Momma Welcome To My Blue Sky

They say your frontal lobe doesn’t fully develop until you’re 25. In crossing that milestone you might find yourself subjected to a slew of preconceived notions and expectations: Are you well-established in your career yet? Is your current partner “the one”? You can no longer

Watch Lucy Dacus Cover Lady Gaga’s “Abracadabra”

Two of the biggest albums of the year so far, here in music-critic world, were Lady Gaga’s Mayhem and Lucy Dacus’ Forever Is A Feeling . Both artists have been hard at work on the promo trail — including a Stereogum interview for Gaga — and now Dacus has brought the two album

Florist – “Jellyfish”

We’re just a few days away from the release of Jellywish , the latest LP from the dreamy New York DIY greats Florist. Over the past few months, the band dropped the early tracks “ This Was A Gift ,” “ Have Heaven ,” “ Gloom Designs ,” and “ Moon, Sea, Devil .” Just before the

Jenny Hval – “The Artist Is Absent”

Next month, the Norwegian avant-garde type Jenny Hval will release Iris Silver Mist , a new album that’s named after a perfume. We posted lead single “ To Be A Rose ,” and now Hval has followed it with a new track called “The Artist Is Absent.” That title is an obvious play on

The Number Ones – “Sorry”

Well, this is funny. Dublin power-pop band the Number Ones have nothing to do with The Number Ones, the Stereogum column that I write, or The Number Ones: Twenty Chart-Topping Hits That Reveal The History Of Pop Music , the book that came out of that column. In fact, these

Cast Announce First US Shows In 29 Years

Stereogum’s own Scott Lapatine is calling it the “British Reinvasion,” which is cute. Britpop overlords Oasis will head out on their much-hyped reunion tour later this year, while smaller contemporaries Gene and Shack recently announced their own reunions . Now Cast, the